This is the story of how I ended up in Thailand

So, where did we leave off? Oh yes, I had escaped South Korea from a bad situation. I'm in Beijing for Chinese New Year. I've got about $3,000 to my name and no idea how I'm going to survive in Asia alone without a job or a next paycheck. So I hit the ground running. Back in those days there were tons of ESL job websites focused on Asia. I spent my week enjoying Beijing for Chinese New Year with my former coworkers from South Korea, and I decided to purchase a ticket and head

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From Honduras to South Korea: My Journey After the Coup So, remember where we left off? Peace Corps, prostitutes, earthquake, military coup? Yeah, sounds about right. Once I finally got out of there, I knew my life abroad wasn’t finished. I just needed another way to make it work. The US economy was in the shitter after the crash in October 2008. Staying wasn’t really an option. I had built the idea of leaving America up in my soul so much that it would’ve meant spiritual dea

Ursus Travel is the culmination of 18 years of my life—a journey that began back in 2008. After years of juggling university and my massage therapy career in Atlanta, Georgia, I finally graduated from Georgia State University in August 2008 with a degree in Anthropology and Spanish. As long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to travel the world. I graduated in August… and then the stock market crashed in October 2008. I had busted my ass to pay off all my credit card debt—which,

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